Next of Kin
Book Details
Author(s)Kate Langdon
ISBN / ASINB0143XM9TY
ISBN-13978B0143XM9T7
Sales Rank690,697
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Sometimes your nearest and dearest are a real pain in the backside…
36-year-old career-woman-extraordinaire, Alex, lives in Sydney, her heart set on a partnership in the company she’s been slogging her guts out for. That’s until her sister, Caroline, rings with some shocking news – their father has died. Distraught, Alex returns home to Auckland, to find both her mother and sisters’ lives in chaos. She tries her best to pick up the pieces but with her sister’s crazy mood swings and her mother’s downright bizarre and adolescent behavior they are both really testing her sense of family duty.
Caroline’s marriage to Rory is on the rocks, as is her sanity, as she unknowingly struggles with postnatal depression. The mother of two small children, she finds herself resentfully trapped in the daily grind of full-time mothering. And now her father has unexpectedly up and died, her mother is a helpless mess, and her little sister is back (her lucky, childless and husbandless sister)…and it’s simply all too much for Caroline to cope with.
Penny has lost her husband of forty-two years. A devoted and dedicated wife for so long, she struggles to deal with the implications of his death. What is she supposed to do now? What about all the retirement plans they made? Outwardly, she grieves for the man she loved for so many years, but inside the part of herself she’s kept hidden for so long is fighting to break free...and she’s powerless to stop it. If only her daughters could understand just how much of herself she’s sacrificed for her family over the years...but can they? Sometimes she’s not even sure they realize she is human.
36-year-old career-woman-extraordinaire, Alex, lives in Sydney, her heart set on a partnership in the company she’s been slogging her guts out for. That’s until her sister, Caroline, rings with some shocking news – their father has died. Distraught, Alex returns home to Auckland, to find both her mother and sisters’ lives in chaos. She tries her best to pick up the pieces but with her sister’s crazy mood swings and her mother’s downright bizarre and adolescent behavior they are both really testing her sense of family duty.
Caroline’s marriage to Rory is on the rocks, as is her sanity, as she unknowingly struggles with postnatal depression. The mother of two small children, she finds herself resentfully trapped in the daily grind of full-time mothering. And now her father has unexpectedly up and died, her mother is a helpless mess, and her little sister is back (her lucky, childless and husbandless sister)…and it’s simply all too much for Caroline to cope with.
Penny has lost her husband of forty-two years. A devoted and dedicated wife for so long, she struggles to deal with the implications of his death. What is she supposed to do now? What about all the retirement plans they made? Outwardly, she grieves for the man she loved for so many years, but inside the part of herself she’s kept hidden for so long is fighting to break free...and she’s powerless to stop it. If only her daughters could understand just how much of herself she’s sacrificed for her family over the years...but can they? Sometimes she’s not even sure they realize she is human.
